Word: hogwash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recommendation-that radio stations should fit the grooves in her recordings by using needles set to corresponding angles and sizes to fit her day-by-day wishes in recording procedure-is just so much Miss Porter's School hogwash. The needles in these modern reproducers are set at the factory, and cannot be adjusted. The simplest method, I might add, would be to fit Miss Howard's recording to these needle adjustments, which, I might add also, have probably been made by engineers with perhaps more thoroughgoing engineering degrees than those passed out at Miss Porter...
...said Europe was hungry? Just a lot of hogwash for Uncle Sap, said Captain Joseph Patterson's New York Daily News. The News had sent Robert Conway, one of its local men, on a junket to Iceland; he had gone on to Europe on his own. From Rome he sent home a story which the News headlined...
...never had any liking for soldiering. They were frustrated by idleness. They had never fully understood why the war was fought. To most of them no one had ever bothered to explain the Army's postwar job. Many who had heard explanations of a sort thought it was hogwash, anyhow...
Warped Minds. There was Julius Streicher's claim that he was a thinker, not a thug. Countered the prosecution: as Nazidom's chief prophet of hate and as editor of his obscenely anti-Semitic Stürmer, he had flooded Germany with pseudoscientific, racist hogwash. Said the British prosecutor: "He leaves behind him as a legacy for Europe and the civilized world, millions of young warped and distorted minds ... a whole people poisoned with the lust of hatred, cruelty and murder." (The other defendants pointedly turned their backs on Streicher...
...argument . . . the opposition [to N.A.M] uses facts and logic even if it's bad logic, and your N.A.M. spokesman gets up and begins to talk about Bolshevism, the American Way, and the evil forces that are out to ruin the country; and all that old-style . . . hogwash goes out with the imprint of the N.A.M. and the apparent sanction of American industry...